Motivational Quotes

Justice

There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Justice

1.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Luther, Martin

2.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Steinem, Gloria

3.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Terence

4.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

Wells, Ida B.

5.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Bacon, Francis

6.

Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.

Kennedy, Robert F.

8.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Blackwell, Alice Stone

9.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Seneca

10.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Aristotle

11.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Churchill, Winston

12.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

13.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

14.

Let justice be done through the heavens fall.

Maxim, Roman

15.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

16.

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William Gladstone

17.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

19.

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

Reagan, Ronald

21.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Landor, Walter Savage

22.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.

Carlyle, Jane Welsh

23.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Democritus

25.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Epicurus

27.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Heraclitus

28.

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

Pope Pius XI

29.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Domitus Ulpian

30.

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Diderot, Denis

31.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Theodore Roosevelt

32.

Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.

Russell, Foster M.

33.

There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.

Darrow, Clarence

34.

The sword of justice has no scabbard.

Antione De Riveral

35.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Blandford, Linda

36.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.

Mansfield, Lord

37.

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

38.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

39.

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Barbara Hall

40.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

41.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Camus, Albert

42.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Butler, Samuel

43.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Cioran, E. M.

44.

Gossip and reputation make sure that what comes around-a person who is cruel will find that the others are cruel hack to him, and a person who is kind will find others are kind in return. Gossip paired with reciprocity allow karma to work here on earth, not in the next life.

Jonathan Haidt

45.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

46.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Lindsay, Vachel

47.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Hellman, Lillian

48.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Horace

49.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.